Luck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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